#I didn’t tho. blocky art 4 life.

[poppyseed799]

Just remembered I technically have a Reddit account, cuz one time someone posted an art I made onto r/fnafcringe and I got a lot of hate for it, so I felt the need to make a throwaway account to defend myself cuz I was like 14 or something. idk if anyone responded to whatever I said cuz I never touched the account again after posting my response. I don’t remember the username or password.

#that was a very interesting event in my life that taught me a lot about hate #wanna know what I drew that was soo bad it had to be put on r/fnafcringe? shadow freddy with some disappearing purple glue sticks. #because I saw disappearing purple glue sticks and said ‘disappearing and purple? like shadow freddy!’ #and the caption the redditor put for it? ‘because EVERYTHING has to be about fnaf’ (sarcastic) #it was so stupid that I was getting bombarded with hate comments for it. to the point I started calling haters Glue Lovers. bc they can’t #stand fnaf fans ruining their precious glue sticks. #anyways! here’s what I noticed about all of this which I took as a lesson that u should never listen to haters! #almost every single person that left a hate comment on it thx to that Reddit post had nazi stuff on their profile #whether it was the pfp or username or the bio. every. single. one. was a nazi. #EXCEPT ONE PERSON #who was a real fnaf fan and didn’t have anything sus on their profile. so I asked them genuinely with sad eyes why they were so offended by #my art of shadow Freddy with some glue. they seemed to stumble on everything a bit cuz it was genuinely really harmless what I was doing and #you wanna know how they eventually decided to justify themselves for the hate? (cuz yes they couldn’t just accept that I didn’t deserve it) #by saying ‘you have to admit the art was pretty bad’ #like bro. what. #I was like ‘so I deserve to be bombarded with hate comments for my art style?’ and they told me to get a different style. #I didn’t tho. blocky art 4 life. #another thing that happened during this experience was that I cried. #but what was important was that I never cried from what the haters said #but instead I cried from what my FANS said. every time I saw someone defend me I cried. #so what I learned from that whole experience is that haters are stupid and usually nazis and you shouldn’t listen to them and the people who #support you are far more important to listen to.

[fmdjoosungarchive]

【✧】━━━━ ♥ H A P P I N E S S    a l b u m    d e t a i l s ♥ ━━━━【✧】

features:

1 visual novel (photo & lyric book)

1 album cd

1 of 6 random bookmarks

1 of 4 random photocards

1 of 2 folded posters

happiness, stylized as HAPPINESS, is the second album, third solo comeback, and first full-length album from element’s sun.

the album concept came about while thinking of the tracklist for the album, i remembered mono had opened up again, which i had thought of for sung’s first album, and obviously didn’t end up using. considering the emotional content of the album had a lot to do with states of negative emotion, i wanted to include other songs not from mono that i’ve wanted for sung, but didn’t have place for, being nosedive and happiness. as maria helped me come to the realization, mono is an album that is really hard to break apart because the production is harmonious. so, sung, who loves books, came up with the idea after deciding on using nosedive, to bookend the songs from mono in. nosedive introduces the concept, happiness rounds it out in a personal way. essentially, a prologue and epilogue. each song from mono functions like a chapter of a book, and one continuous storyline of experiencing and accepting strong emotion. so the format of the cover, and photobook, mimic a novel, to express this concept.

all handwritten-looking lines (the tracklist on the back of the album, the song lyrics on the bookmarks, the lyric pages in the photobook) are handwritten by sung. the bookmarks are also hand-drawn by sung. as sung’s mun i decided to take a stance on one of the vague lines in tokyo, because sung water element, i aquarius, and waves are easier to draw than words not said. top to bottom, left to right, the lyrics are something like “someone will be consoled by looking at your thorns for sure” (moonchild) “like fruits ripen after flowers wither away” (everythingoes) “i’ve already become a part of you” (seoul) “i’m sorry, i can’t give up on myself” (uhgood) “life is a wave that sometimes you cannot see” (tokyo) “when it rains, i feel a bit like i have a friend” (forever rain) the purpose of these bookmarks is to give comfort to those who use them, and remind them of the messages he attempted to convey through the songs. (& thank you to luna for helping me make sure the lines make sense standalone!)

a running theme with the concept of this album, is that the cover and title seem bright, over the top, and... for lack of a better word, happy. however, it’s all a facade. pictures from the photobook mix between dark and bright, the cd’s emojis are used only in online, distanced experiences. and the cover itself is a mishmash of everything just that side of Wrong. i was originally inspired by the cover art for j-hope’s hopeworld album, as well as these edits [x] (pls reverse image search for the creators, i’m so sorry it’s been too long n i don’t rmr where they came from)

to take away all the mystery and explain everything, the main color of the book is yellow, a color associated with happiness. the title and sung’s stage name are stylized in big, blocky, dramatic letters. the focus piece starts with an irl polaroid, with real tapes, and real stickers. stickers read ‘hope’ and ‘love’ and feature hearts, smiley faces, and rainbows. everything within the polaroid, however, is fake. the colors are wonky, compared to real life. a mountain backdrop rounds a cliff, and a waterfall that’s actually a cassette tape that’s losing its color. all of the happiness, the color, the music, is dripping out, and even dripping into the ‘real world’ part of the piece. it expresses both how people hide behind a fake mask of happiness, and how emotions are real, the full rainbow spectrum of them, and need to be felt, otherwise they will leave completely, even the best emotions of them.

it’s an album cover that seems a lot happier at first glance than it truly is. this is continued onto the back, where the biggest words there are ‘cheer up’ and ‘be strong’, when, if reading the actual ‘synopsis’, you would find that the point is to not rely on giving others these words.

as the table of contents states, there is also a foreword/author’s note, handwritten by sung, which i will Probably write out as well, but this is already so long i’ll leave that for a separate post.

also, if u hate any of this, pls b nice to me anyway lmao i’m not an artist n a bih is fragile n has been working on this for Months n Months so pls b nice,, tho i WILL say i’m super proud of that cassette. the best thing i’ve ever drawn

#era: happiness #aesthetic #self para #(wc: over 600) #i put sm thought and love into this so anyone who reads all dis gets a cookie #per usual tumblr will probably fuck quality so open pics if u wanna zoom in and see everything!! #n yes im already using pics from jongins solo #i'm more disappointed i couldnt find a place for the Painted Nails #anyway ill shut up i love this era smsmsmsmmmssmsmsmsm